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By Paul_Sengupta
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Long dead I believe. It worked for 6 years apparently, being the first satellite to use solar panels.

However, I posted on here before that an amateur radio satellite launched in 1974 has come back to life after it's presumed the batteries, which died long ago, went open circuit allowing the satellite to be powered by the solar panels when in sun without being short circuited by the batteries...

http://www.arrl.org/news/ao-7-zombie-satellite-again-enjoying-its-time-in-the-sun

There's also this:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2244633/abandoned-us-satellite-starts-transmitting-after-50-years/
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All quite amazing when you consider how much stuff has gone in to orbit and remains there.

While it is interesting to see them come back to life, some serious effort needs to be put into a clean up operation.
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By cotterpot
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Sooty25 wrote:All quite amazing when you consider how much stuff has gone in to orbit and remains there.

While it is interesting to see them come back to life, some serious effort needs to be put into a clean up operation.



Harpoons being developed to catch 'stuff' and drag it back to earth

https://news.sky.com/story/space-harpoo ... s-11291554